You still don't get it. I want twine to be the primary noun for the twine. When I READ ABOUT BALL in the book, I don't want it to refer to the twine. I want it to refer to the topic on the rubber ball in the book.
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start_at = room
game_settings {
add_standard_prepositions = false
experimental_new_parser = true
}
locations {
room : location "You are in a room.";
}
objects {
twine : object "a ball of twine" at = "room" msg = "aaa";
text_book : object "a text book" at = "room";
}
on_command {
: if (is_present "twine" && noun1_is "ball") {
: mask {
: set_noun1 text="twine";
}
}
: match "_ _" {
: mask {
: print {("^n^verb = " + original "verb")}
: print {("^n^preposition1 = " + original "preposition1")}
: print {("^n^noun1 = " + original "noun1")}
: print {("^n^preposition2 = " + original "preposition2")}
: print {("^n^noun2 = " + original "noun2" + "^m^")}
}
}
: if (is_present "text_book") {
: match "read _" {
: if (preposition1_is "about") {
: if (noun1_is "ball") {
: print "It says you only need rubber to make a ball.";
: done;
}
: print "There's no topic on that.";
: done;
}
}
}
}
vocabulary {
: experimental_replace { text = "ball of twine" with = "twine" }
: preposition / aliases = [about]
: noun / aliases = [ball]
}